figjamjam

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by figjamjam 9y ago
I don't have any anti-semitic feelings towards the jews. The jews here make up ~10K of the 20K upper class and I live in Punta Pacifica which is a jewish area. I consider their influence to be instrumental for preventing many of the po
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by figjamjam 10y ago
Upvoted; I'd like to defend ethics here from the other respondents. Despite what may seem counterintuitive to making money; there is a positive correlation between company success and ethics. An ethical company is more likely to have e
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by figjamjam 10y ago
How do you design a fast car? You avoid designing a slow one. Make room for good habits by stopping bad ones. I wouldn't take outliers as examples unless you are also such an outlier. At which point any advice based on averages is moot
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by figjamjam 10y ago
I'm off the market for the foreseeable future and plan on staying that way. So no.
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by figjamjam 10y ago
I'm sure it'll be a different culture but that's part of the fun. My only advice would be to take promises of future buckets of money with a grain of salt.
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by figjamjam 10y ago
Yup, it was an average of 20 years older to wealthy VCs who look like my dad. I don't get the appeal, feels like jumping right to the end of life. They did get good jobs out of it so there is that. The Battery, MaiTai, and other privat
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by figjamjam 10y ago
Thanks. A problem occurs when the market gets too thin. I've had all my long term gfs leave me for much older richer men. As a guy I'm confident that I will both get older and richer so I'll be fine. My greater concern is for
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by figjamjam 10y ago
Given your response, I put it to you that perhaps you are assuming too much about me and the tech industry. FYI I understand risk and culture to an obsessive degree. Edit: I used to build risk analysis products for finance
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by figjamjam 10y ago
I was excommunicated from my family at 15 because I refused to join Amway. It's a family destroying dangerous cult. It's not like my family was super awesome before Amway but it did drive us from lower middle class to poor while p
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by figjamjam 10y ago
The government makes it's money via property and consumption taxes. And there is no military to fund. The economy is also helped by foreign tax avoidance. Interestingly; you'll find that the US is now by far the biggest enabler of
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by figjamjam 10y ago
Agreed, I now live in a tax haven. It's every bit as awesome as I imagined it to be :) I wouldn't mind paying some tax but there is a point where you're paying for your own propaganda / chains.
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by figjamjam 10y ago
For those who are unaware; the UK TV tax of roughly $15 a month. I never signed up. I'd get a threatening call from the BBC every 6 months trying to shake me down with threats of fines and jail time. I told them that I didn't have
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by figjamjam 10y ago
They're all rounghly the same. Some more expensive than others. I'm carribian based, I can't afford to be Switzerland based.
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by figjamjam 10y ago
How about abolishing income tax in general and just have a consumption and land taxes. I live and run my company in a tax haven. I had to move here in order to be competitive internationally with other low tax jurisdictions. My only other o